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Another big one: It is extremely wasteful in terms of both client expenditure and resources to fly an inexperienced analyst from Seattle to the east coast (seen it on multiple occasions) when that firm has offices within 5 minutes of the client site. Accenture has started to take the lead with the regional model, and even though it gets some flak, I think it is a step in the right direction.
I see massive law suits coming on. All the mental, emotional and physical health issues that come out of consulting is akin to abuse and slave labor conditions. It's employment at will, almost every job is, but it's not abuse at will.
I see no reason why remote work cannot be extended for nearly every consultant. There is no real need to have a good majority of folks onsite for no other reason than facetime with the client. Unfortunately, I don't see this changing unless one big firm decides to take the first leap.
^travel is part of the reason young talent joins in the first place. Do you not think this will affect recruiting? Similar to remote interviews
I think when considering the travel aspect it isn't just this industry that would require disruption, but rather a shift in majority of people's ability to feel and act connected virtually. We'll always be responsive to what our clients demand. A good amount of our low cost / value work is done remote via offshore or delivery centers. The shift is certainly more feasible at the lower levels. Once you start to move from pure delivery to focus on relationships, sales, and BD sitting on Skype in your home office just doesn't get the job done.
Depends on the role. My role involves a lot of 1:1 interviews with people on the line. There is a massive difference in feedback between someone on a call vs. in person. I would like to see if video call would make any difference but no one at our client on the line has a laptop with video service.
This industry should be more accommodating for remote work. We’re people. No robots. Working smart, rather than longer should be prioritized.
Travelers should travel one week a month to client site. The remaining weeks can be optional to work from home or at local office. Local folks should be allowed the flexibility to go in the office up to 3 times a week. The ridiculous need of maintaining optics for the sake of a douchebag client or engagement partner should stop. If you can’t get sh*t done from anywhere you at, then the issue is on you.
All, go get a job in the real world and you’ll find the consulting work life balance isn’t that bad. 3 times the vacation, shut down weeks during holidays, weeks on the beach, etc. none of which exists outside consulting.
Yeah the industry is hung up on not working remotely. That should/can budge a bit.
I’m with @E1. My job involves field research and highly interactive workshops... I don’t see that ever being done remotely.
I’ve worked on numerous projects where we are remote 2 weeks and together 1. The quality of work the 2 weeks we aren’t together is drastically different.
Also, I understand some roles may be ripe to stay at home, but Travel is what keeps some people here. I don’t want to work as hard as I do and have to make food on my own and pay for my groceries. So many expenses go up when you work from homes it could easily be changed with a pay increase to make up for not traveling, but that’s part of why some ppl like consulting.
Wow a lot of you are missing the point of being face to face...it is NOT about the deliverables but rather about builsing relationships and being a trusted advisor for the client. If people worked remote, the client would question the value and likely replace
If my firm went to a local model that would be a major deterrent from consulting for me. Commutes for local clients can be brutal - sometimes way worse than flying out.
Anyone who thinks this is remotely like slave labor or abuse has never experienced real hardship. Seriously folks. A bad day in this job is having people be annoyed at you. Comparing it to slave labor is utterly stupid.
P2, you're wrong. I grew up very, very poor and experienced "real" hardship but I've seen pretty shocking, abusive situations occur at this job. Yes, people in consulting make a decent living but outside of strategy consulting some of the developed skill sets are too niche to find similarly compensated work in industry., so they are effectively "stuck." I've worked with people who are terrified of losing their jobs bc of visa issues or loans, and put their health and family relationships on hold just to be on call 24/7 for partners or clients with totally unrealistic expectations. Partners effectively say yes to everything and let the pain rain down on jr staff who are not empowered enough to stand up for themselves. Just because it's not living in the projects doesn't mean it's not rough.
At the lower level, extensive travel just doesn't make sense from a financial perspective. The company isn't paying for me to have a vacation, I'll go where I'm needed. I understand the concern from a recruiting perspective, but frankly, I think people who join primarily for the travel are a minority.
I’m in a group where travel is about 50% and WFH is about 45%. I go into my local office about 5% to stay involved and connected. I really love that balance of travel and don’t think I’d last long in one of the groups that does 80-100% . It’s just dumb.
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AI will replace many of our roles. Then, I can finally farm oysters.
I don’t personally think regional model makes sense, but remote with more video enabled interactions seems like it’d work.